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Quotes About Pensive

Though it may not be a suitable comment for even this confidential record, I thought, by no means for the first time in such surroundings, what an odd way it was for people of opposite sexes to spend the evening, when, after all, there was nothing ahead that any of us could be sure of but infirmity, illness, and death.
~ Robert Aickman
Lan had begun an intense study of the contents of his pipe's bowl.
~ Robert Jordan
Life has ill-prepared me for finding any enjoyment in a press of merrymakers.
~ Laurie R. King
I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic
~ Billy Corgan
He looks sad. Or maybe that's just how he looks when he isn't doing something else with his face.
~ Audrey Niffenegger
He spent the afternoon alone in the streets.
~ Orson Scott Card
Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
~ Jonathan Swift
Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say
~ Alessandro Baricco
So we sat and thought deeply for awhile.
~ Ernest Hemingway
the dreamy endlessness of the afternoons spent deep in her own mind.
~ Andrew Martin
He adored the boy, who could induce strange reflections in him; once when the infant fell and slightly hurt himself, causing a great commotion, 'the Emperor became very pensive and then said: "I've seen one cannonball take out a single line of twenty men.
~ Andrew Roberts
I fall to the toilette of my hinder parts, my favourite stance when contemplating the ways of the world.
~ Angela Carter
So he just sits here staring into his beer.
~ Angie Sage
I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof
~ Ani DiFranco
If you met him you'd think the inspector was kind of slow. It was his way of thinking before he spoke so you knew that when the words came out they were just the ones he'd intended.
~ Ann Cleeves
I am not, by nature, an explorer or an adventurer.
~ David Grann
I had the time to reflect on my life.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
A little quiet contemplation is a good way to begin the day.
~ Robin Cook
Ultimately, Photography is subversive not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive , when it thinks.
~ Roland Barthes
stopped. She looked at it like she was having second
~ Lee Child
In vain we roared;in vain we tried To rouse her into laughter: Her pensive glances wandered wide From orchestra to rafter - TIER UPON TIER! she said,and sighed; And silence followed after.
~ Lewis Carroll
Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say.' He said. 'Nothing more, never.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Qualcuno diceva: ha qualcosa addosso, come una specie di infelicità.
~ Alessandro Baricco
It's now the British Muse's fables That lie on maidens' bedside tables And haunt their dreams. They worship now The Vampire with his pensive brow
~ Alexander Pushkin